natural food for flower horn

[icecube]

Hi
what according to you people is the natural avaliable food that can be fed to flower horn fish to enhance their colour and increase their hump size.
I heard that prawns are good,anything else?

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

they are good, but it is also important to use a high quality staple food as well.

 

[PoopSmart]

Market shrimp increases the reds, but my flowerhorn never ate them.

 

[fishfarm]

I don't think Flowerhorns would be considered a natural food as they are a hybrid, But I've eaten a lot of Central Ameircan fish on Collecting trips so they should taste OK. Ken

 

[FSM]

Krill, perhaps?

 

[scubasteve06]

I don't think Flowerhorns would be considered a natural food as they are a hybrid, But I've eaten a lot of Central Ameircan fish on Collecting trips so they should taste OK. Ken

lol i think he is referring to feeding them not eating them....yet....

 

[KABB44423]

frozen blood worms and frozen brine shrimp and a good light

 

[aquatic_wonders]

peeled shrimp in terms of kok getting bigger first it depend if the fh you got has the genes to have a big kok, if it has give it TLC and also try giving ching mix (not natural though)

 

[titansfever83]

hybrid forum

 

[chefrific]

I give mine as much of a variety of foods as I can. But a good staple of Hikari "bio-gold" does wonders as well. Mine always get a few pellets each day, but supplemented with shrimp, bloodworms, waxworms, live rosy red minnows, krill, beefheart etc....